S U M M A R Y 
Nichelle Clark, crime reporter at The Tribune in Virginia, covers a pretty busy beat in Richmond, VA. After nearly dying a few months ago, she's been very busy, constantly trying to outdo her TV counterpart. Her dream is, one day, to cover politics, and when a series of crimes start showing a bunch of politicians, things start getting even more complicated. 

 C H A R A C T E R S 
I really like Nichelle. Her love of shoes and her dog is great, though I feel bad for her pupper being home alone so much! She had a sharp, amusing sense of humor, a keen mind, and a nose for trouble. I like the supporting cast a lot as well, I don't feel like they're just cardboard cutouts. Some of the dueling romantic interests actually keeps me interested, too, oddly enough. The villains seem at least mostly believable. 

 P L O T 
Walker can really keep up the tension and find clever ways to twist events around. It's obvious in retrospect that she was a journalist in her previous life, and it really felt like a peek into that world. The pacing was great in both of these books, it kept me turning the metaphorical pages! 

 N A R R A T I O N 
Therese Plummer did a stellar job! She has a very ... flexible? ... voice and really manages to get in the tongue-in-cheek and emotional tones into the narration.

 O V E R A L L 
Obviously I like it enough to keep on with the series! Bless audible for having the series member sale (which I spent too much on). I have the third one and will be reading it in the near future.